I had red beans and rice with sausage for Fat Tuesday. Your gumbo looks very good. I have a cook book written by Justin Wilson that we brought when we vacationed in New Orleans for our 20th wedding anniversary. Blessings to you Roxie

Sometimes I will just ask for a few shrimp - like 10. :) It's best not to waste it, right? It is true that you learn something new every day. That soup looks so yummy... I have to keep reminding myself that I'm fasting today so I shouldn't look at all my blogs!

When Krogers had the shrimp on sale I bought some of the plastic containers with cocktail sauce and froze them . Unfortunately , a week ago my large freezer decided to thaw . It was completely full of my " bargains " !!!I did not realize until it was too late, there was a problem.Sometimes trying to save money can cost you money !

Well, first, thanks for visiting my blog. Sorry it's taken me so long to get back and say 'hi.'Second, you are so funny! I hope you now realize you can ask for a half or quarter of anything. I sometimes put Jarlsberg cheese in my mac & cheese. But the pre-packaged kind is so expensive (about 9 dollars a pound!) that I try to just get a quarter pound at the deli counter. And nobody gawks at me, either.I was a cashier many years ago and at first I thought it was funny when someone bought one apple or one potato. Now, as I try to save money by not being wasteful, I 'get it.' I rarely buy shrimp, but when it is on sale for half price I'll sometimes get a bag as a 'treat.' Then I just take out what I need. Shrimp is cool like that...it's like it's individually frozen. I can stretch a bag pretty far. I only wish you could freeze lobster--but it is just awful frozen.I'm glad you enjoyed your Gumbo!

I attempted my husband's favourite Asian dish last week ~ full of prawns. For five of us at $30/kg it's not a cheap meal to try out.

I chose a night when my daughters were out for dinner and saved them a portion to share after school the next day. I only got about 300g instead of 500g. And then I cut them all in half. They spread through the meal further that way.

Mmmmmmm... If everyone in my house wasn't allergic to seafood - THIS would certainly be part of our week menu -durn it - Since I see bits of chicken, I'll make do with that and some turkey sausage!Looks yummy to me tho'!

A few weeks ago I was at our local seafood place and asked the ever-so-adorable "boy" behind the counter if I could just get a quarter pound of the medium, uncooked, tail-on, blah blah blah. I'm the only person who likes shrimp at my house and I didn't want a lot of leftovers.

"Ma'am," he said, "I can give you *one* shrimp if that's what you want. Whatever you want, it's all priced by the pound but available any which way."